AI whisperer

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Noun

AI whisperer (plural AI whisperers)

  1. (informal) A person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.
    • 2018 May 9, Andrew J. Hawkins, “Inside Waymo's Strategy to Grow the Best Brains for Self-Driving Cars”, in The Verge[1], archived from the original on 9 May 2018:
      Krizhevsky left Google several years later, [] and he has since taken on a bit of a mythical status. (Ferguson called him an “AI whisperer.”)
    • [2023, Guy Hart-Davis, Killer ChatGPT Prompts: Harness the Power of AI for Success and Profit, John Wiley & Sons, page 41:
      Prompt Engineer. Also called an “AI whisperer,” a prompt engineer is someone who creates effective prompts for getting the desired results from a language model. This is essentially what you’re learning from this book]
    • 2023 March 29, Conrad Quilty-Harper, “$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market”, in Bloomberg[2]:
      “It’s like an AI whisperer,” says Albert Phelps, a prompt engineer at Mudano, part of consultancy firm Accenture in Leytonstone, England. “You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You're trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.”
  2. (informal) One who is skilled with artificial intelligence programs.
    • 2018, R. E. Stearns, Mutiny at Vesta, Simon and Schuster, page 116:
      The Nassir name bought her more trust in pirate circles than Karpe would’ve [] Adda kept hers as a reminder for anyone who met Pel that the weird AI whisperer was his big sister, and they’d have a lot more than a couple of pirates to tangle with if they messed with him.
    • 2020 May 5, Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:
      “But you're the AI whisperer. I mean, the entropy sweeper thinks you're its best friend. And now Brana has a name I didn't even know about, but you do. Why do all the AIs I program love you so much?”
    • 2020, Corey J. White, Repo Virtual, Macmillan + ORM, page 220:
      “What do you think it was trying to tell us?” Troy asked.
      “You’re the AI whisperer,” Enda said.